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		<title>Fifty (More) Swifties</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Alexander]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>[see:</i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifties">Wikipedia: Tom Swifties</A><i>, </i><A HREF="http://www.nothings.org/writing/swifty.html">Tom Swifties Written By An Author Willing To Go To Any Lengths To Make A Tom Swifty Thus Resulting In Constructions That Often Require More Work For Readers Than For The Author</A><i>, and </i><A HREF="http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/fifty-swifties/">Fifty Swifties</A><i>. Previously on Twitter </i><A HREF="https://twitter.com/slatestarcodex">here</A><i>.]</i></p>
<p>&#8220;This sandwich is gross,&#8221; Tom said deliberately.</p>
<p>&#8220;My Frisbee is stuck on the roof of that circus building,&#8221; Tom said discontently.</p>
<p>&#8220;I hate Google,&#8221; Tom said probingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Godzilla swallowed a United Nations bunker, but then he threw it back up,&#8221; Tom said unfortunately.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Objectivism is stupid,&#8221; Tom said randomly.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so exciting to visit Leonardo&#8217;s birthplace,&#8221; Tom said invincibly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Persephone must marry Hades and live with him half the year,&#8221; Zeus said despairingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I now control majority shares of CBS, FOX, and the New York Times,&#8221; Tom said immediately.</p>
<p>&#8220;Enemy fighters just scored a direct hit on my plane! I&#8217;m going down!&#8221; Tom said knowingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were badly injured in the struggle with the Orcs, but luckily the Ents&#8217; medicine restored our health,&#8221; Tom said tremendously.</p>
<p>&#8220;I took Gollum&#8217;s precious trinket in a riddle contest,&#8221; Tom said wonderingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve lost this Maxis game ten times in a row on the easiest difficulty setting,&#8221; Tom said sympathetically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can commit adultery three more times and still be just under the threshold for damnation,&#8221; Tom said syntactically.</p>
<p>&#8220;O Lord, why are you punishing me like this?&#8221; Jonah said inefficiently.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look! Nicaraguan guerillas!&#8221; Tom contraindicated.</p>
<p>&#8220;I forgot to give up meat before Easter, so I&#8217;ll do it before Christmas,&#8221; Tom said redolently.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll see you in court!&#8221; Tom said supersonically.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I speak Japanese, I think of myself as a young, cute person,&#8221; Tom said mechanically.</p>
<p>&#8220;Iä Cthulhu! Iä Azathoth!&#8221; the man called maniacally.</p>
<p>&#8220;Stay away from Stalin,&#8221; Tom commissioned.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those old phones, from before wireless and touch-tone,&#8221; Tom said cordially.</p>
<p>&#8220;She&#8217;ll have sex with me for $20 any time I phone her up,&#8221; Tom said horrifically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I read the Cliff Notes to Dante&#8217;s Inferno,&#8221; Tom said synergistically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to recover the lunar lander from the surface of the moon and make a fortune,&#8221; Tom said apologetically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I covered myself in a layer of gold,&#8221; Tom said amblingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I covered myself in a layer of pyrite,&#8221; Tom said shamblingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I covered myself in the Golden Fleece of Colchis,&#8221; Tom said ramblingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;The poverty rate has increased 10% recently, but I don&#8217;t have any kind of visual presentation of its course,&#8221; Tom said pornographically.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should perform an autopsy,&#8221; Tom said wide-eyed.</p>
<p>&#8220;That tree is naked under its bark!&#8221; Tom said prudently.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can afford either an iPhone or a yacht, but not both,&#8221; Tom said on self-ownership.</p>
<p>&#8220;The guy who was installing the granite tops in my kitchen had a cardiac arrest,&#8221; Tom countermanded.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can stop progress by attacking a conference on new ideas with a many-headed monster,&#8221; Tom said well-hydrated.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re a bell,&#8221; Tom told me.</p>
<p>&#8220;The wages of sin is death,&#8221; Tom said diurnally.</p>
<p>&#8220;Abortion is murder,&#8221; Tom said prolifically.</p>
<p>&#8220;Can do!&#8221; Tom said candidly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have a present for you, Madame,&#8221; Vincent said endearingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Arrrrrr,&#8221; Tom aspirated.</p>
<p>&#8220;My lower social status as part of the new rich prevents me from winning my true love,&#8221; Gatsby said lackadaisically.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Minoans sucked,&#8221; Tom said discretely. </p>
<p>&#8220;Well, if you think the Minoans did a bad job with their empire, you should try ruling them yourself,&#8221; his teacher said, giving him a B−.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ha ha, just kidding,&#8221; Tom ingested.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sheep can&#8217;t have sex changes!&#8221; Tom said, heedless of the ramifications.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wrote a synoptic Gospel,&#8221; Tom remarked.</p>
<p>&#8220;People used to lay wires across the country for the telegraph system, an early precursor to the telephone,&#8221; Tom said according to protocol.</p>
<p>&#8220;My laptop came bundled with malware that causes a serious security flaw,&#8221; Tom said superficially.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need artillery cover!&#8221; Tom said canonically.</p>
<p>&#8220;Someday my family will rule the world,&#8221; Tom said clandestinely.</p>
<p>&#8220;The West&#8217;s treatment of Palestine is an example of Orientalism,&#8221; Tom said.</p>
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		<title>Fifty Swifties</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Alexander]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[see: Wikipedia: Tom Swifties and Tom Swifties Written By An Author Willing To Go To Any Lengths To Make A Tom Swifty Thus Resulting In Constructions That Often Require More Work For Readers Than For The Author. All of the &#8230; <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/fifty-swifties/">Continue reading <span class="pjgm-metanav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>[see:</i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifties">Wikipedia: Tom Swifties</A><i> and </i><A HREF="http://www.nothings.org/writing/swifty.html">Tom Swifties Written By An Author Willing To Go To Any Lengths To Make A Tom Swifty Thus Resulting In Constructions That Often Require More Work For Readers Than For The Author</A><i>. All of the below are AFAIK original to SSC.]</i></p>
<p>&#8220;Pennies look really different under a microscope,&#8221; Tom said magnificently.</p>
<p>&#8220;A griffin is a kind of flying lion,&#8221; Tom said uproariously</p>
<p>&#8220;Our flight path has brought us directly above Yellowstone National Park&#8221; Tom said overbearingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama absolutely buried Romney in the election!&#8221; Tom said intermittently.</p>
<p>&#8220;I grew two inches last year!&#8221; Tom said ambiguously</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to trick one or another rich woman into marrying me so I can steal her fortune,&#8221; Tom said consummately</p>
<p>&#8220;The auction is now open,&#8221; Tom said forbiddingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I deny everything!&#8221; Tom said all-knowingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;The telegraph network was over capacity, so you&#8217;ll have to send your message again&#8221; Tom said remorsefully.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ender, the Formics have dug themselves into fortifications!&#8221; Tom observed trenchantly</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to miss work for the next few days, I&#8217;m stuck doing my civic duty at the courthouse,&#8221; Tom said injuriously</p>
<p>&#8220;The Zoroastrians seem to control a disproportionate amount of India&#8217;s wealth,&#8221; Tom said parsimoniously</p>
<p>&#8220;Nana seems to be developing Tourette syndrome,&#8221; Tom said grammatically.</p>
<p>&#8220;This prison will be the perfect place for my unethical Human Centipede style experiments,&#8221; Tom said confusingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;The bounty hunter was my favorite character in Star Wars,&#8221; Tom said prophetically.</p>
<p>&#8220;Brutha, the Great God is not just a turtle, but also within the hearts of all mankind,&#8221; Tom said ominously.</p>
<p>&#8220;Chelsea Manning mailed me one of her teeth,&#8221; Tom said transcendentally.</p>
<p>&#8220;I got a job producing another season of Lassie,&#8221; Tom said moronically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was out at the brothel until after midnight,&#8221; Tom said scintillatingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but the lady is spoken for,&#8221; Tom said mistakenly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to an all-you-can-eat restaurant tonight,&#8221; Tom said forgetfully.</p>
<p>&#8220;The girl from my blind date last night was a 4/10,&#8221; Tom said metaphorically.</p>
<p>&#8220;The medication cured my autism but also made me gain weight,&#8221; Tom said fatalistically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I used to have to walk everywhere,&#8221; Tom said precariously.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hades seems like a pretty credible guy,&#8221; Tom said disbelievingly.</p>
<p>&#8220;That commercial really helped spread awareness of the risks of intelligence explosions,&#8221; Tom said admiringly</p>
<p>&#8220;To think this entire tree grew from a single nut in just a few years,&#8221; Tom said exceedingly quickly</p>
<p>&#8220;I got selected for the role of Juan Peron in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical!&#8221; Tom said inevitably</p>
<p>&#8220;After playing Juan Peron, no one ever cast me in a play again,&#8221; Tom said exactingly</p>
<p>&#8220;SAT scores should be given more weight in college admissions,&#8221; Tom protested.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will start a campaign to convert <A HREF="https://twitter.com/aristosophy">@aristosophy</A> and <A HREF="https://twitter.com/donovanable">@donovanable</A> to Catharism,&#8221; Tom would prognosticate.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Notorious B.I.G.&#8217;s death was a predictable result of his career,&#8221; Tom would rhapsodize.</p>
<p>&#8220;The zoo&#8217;s exhibit on African wildlife was a big disappointment,&#8221; Tom said hypocritically</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the Leviathan!&#8221; Tom said superficially</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ve got an atrial septal defect,&#8221; Tom said whole-heartedly</p>
<p>&#8220;I first met my wife in the restroom at a bar,&#8221; Tom said accommodatingly</p>
<p>&#8220;I picked up a nice new casual shirt,&#8221; Tom said apologetically</p>
<p>&#8220;The cat-goddess is a threat to the American way of life,&#8221; Tom said bombastically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t figure out how to stop our boat!&#8221; Tom said cantankerously</p>
<p>&#8220;Satan is the original source of evil,&#8221; Tom said urbanely</p>
<p>&#8220;I can slay the Jabberwock,&#8221; Tom said demonstrably</p>
<p>&#8220;I realize I missed the meeting by two whole hours,&#8221; Tom said isolatedly</p>
<p>&#8220;Kosher kitchens need separate plates for milk and meat,&#8221; Tom said judiciously</p>
<p>&#8220;Bill Clinton got a divorce!&#8221; Tom said exhilarated</p>
<p>&#8220;Lower-ranked demons can kiss my ass,&#8221; Tom said imprudently</p>
<p>&#8220;Help, I got stuck inside this cattle pen,&#8221; Tom said inoffensively</p>
<p>&#8220;My throne sits on the floor,&#8221; Tom said lackadaisically</p>
<p>&#8220;It costs one thirty cent stamp to send one letter,&#8221; Tom said permissively</p>
<p>&#8220;I forbid you to take the ladder to the topmost room of my house,&#8221; Tom said anti-climatically.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ho ho fucking ho!&#8221; customarily.</p>
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		<title>Semite Times: The Bible In Palindromes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENESIS Dumb mud &#8220;Madam, I&#8217;m Adam&#8221; Eve damned Eden, mad Eve Cain: a maniac EXODUS Egad, no bondage! &#8220;Live not on evil!&#8221; LEVITICUS Repel a leper NUMBERS &#038; DEUTERONOMY Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new &#8230; <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/10/the-bible-in-palindromes/">Continue reading <span class="pjgm-metanav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>GENESIS</b><br />
Dumb mud<br />
&#8220;Madam, I&#8217;m Adam&#8221;<br />
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve<br />
Cain: a maniac</p>
<p><b>EXODUS</b><br />
Egad, no bondage!<br />
&#8220;Live not on evil!&#8221;</p>
<p><b>LEVITICUS</b><br />
Repel a leper</p>
<p><b>NUMBERS &#038; DEUTERONOMY</b><br />
Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?</p>
<p><b>JUDGES, PROPHETS, KINGS, &#038; WRITINGS</b><br />
Now, sir, a war is won<br />
Egad! A base life defiles a bad age.<br />
[Deed]<br />
[Deed]<br />
[Tenet]<br />
[Tenet]</p>
<p><b>THE GOSPELS</b><br />
So &#8211; let&#8217;s use Jesus&#8217; telos.<br />
Dogma: I am God!<br />
Deliverer re-reviled<br />
&#8220;Abba, abba&#8230;&#8221;<br />
Did I do, O God, did I as I said I&#8217;d do? Good, I did.<br />
Deified</p>
<p><b>REVELATIONS</b><br />
Won’t I panic in a pit now?</p>
<p>(most of these palindromes are not original to me, but I cannot find good attributions)</p>
<p>(I apologize for skipping the Pauline epistles, but I couldn&#8217;t find or invent good palindromes to describe them. But if we follow most scholars in rejecting 1 &#038; 2 Timothy, Titus, and Ephesians, then modern <i>commentary</i> on the Pauline epistles could be &#8220;some men interpret nine memos&#8221;)</p>
<p>(I realize the title &#8220;Semite Times&#8221; might lead one to expect a more general history of the Jews beyond the Biblical period. I cannot do this concept justice, but a good chunk of modern Israeli history could be &#8220;bar an Arab&#8221;)</p>
<p>(Sounds Biblical as heck but unfortunately doesn&#8217;t seem to correspond to any actual Bible story: &#8220;So may Obadiah, even in Nineveh, aid a boy, Amos&#8221;.)</p>
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